The Fatih Mosque is a mosque in the Ortahisar district in Trabzon

Trabzon

Trabzon is a city on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province. Trabzon, located on the historical Silk Road, became a melting pot of religions, languages and culture for centuries and a trade gateway to Iran in the southeast and the Caucasus to the northeast...

, Turkey

Turkey

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. It was originally built in Byzantine

Byzantine

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 times as the Panagia Chrysokephalos Church. It also displays the most beautiful samples of the Ottoman

Ottoman Empire

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 writing arts. It was probably first built as a basilica

Basilica

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 and as the catholicon

Catholicon

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 of a monastery

Monastery

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. Is is said that the church was built on the remains of a temple of the Roman

Roman Empire

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 period in the 10th century and restored in the 12th, 13th, 14th centuries. The building was used as a metropolitian church in the period of the Empire of Trabzon. The main plan is the shape of a Greek cross. The church became a mosque after the Ottoman conquest and first prayer was attended by Mehmet II, who adjoined a madrasah

Madrasah

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(Fatih Madrasa) to the building.